Here’s the Energy Agenda from the Koch Brothers’ Guy on the Trump Transition Team

The energy agenda of the incoming Trump administration just got a lot clearer. A memo sent by Thomas Pyle, President of the Koch-funded Institute for Energy Research (IER) and head of the Trump transition’s energy team, laid out “The Trump Administration’s Energy Plan.”

Moving forward with pipeline projects including the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipeline;

Rolling back federal fuel economy standards;

Ending the use of the social cost of carbon in agency rulemaking; and

Reconsidering the “endangerment finding” that found greenhouse gases to be a threat to public health and welfare.

The memo from Pyle was echoed in a blog post on the AEA website published on Friday, December 2, which lays out “A Blueprint for America’s Comeback” and includes many of the same policy proposals, similarly worded. The entirety of original memo is uploaded on the ExposedByCMD blog.